TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS 1.Social change results from changes in demography, technology, and many other factors, but not from the natural environment. 2.After decades of causing massive social changes, the baby boomers no longer have a significant effect on U.S. society. 3.A small technological innovation, the microwave, has even caused changes in family patterns. 4.The U.S. government has significantly contributed to major social changes. 5.The cyclic theory of social change appears to be more descriptive than analytic; it does not actually explain why societies change. 6.Early proponents of the evolutionary theory of social change believed that change is ultimately progress. 7.The belief that all societies will ultimately follow the same evolutionary path is referred to as multilinear evolutionary theory. 8.A major problem with the functionalist theory’s view of social change is that it implicitly assumes that change is normal. 9.Postmodernist thinkers reject many of the basic ideas of modernity. 10.Consistent with Durkheim’s view, it is very clear that as we have become more diverse, fewer shared values hold us together than did so in the past.